Razor-strop.



PATENTD JUNE 6, 1905.l

J. H. WALL. RAZOR STROP. -APPLIQATION FILED MAR. 9.1903.

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I Patented June 6, 1905.

PATENT OEEICE.

`JOHN H. WALL, OF BRISTOL, RHODE ISLAND.

RAZOR-STROP.

SPECIFICATION formngpart of Letters Patent No. "791,736, dated June 6,- 1905.

' Application filed March 9, 1903. Serial No. 146,842.

To ,all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. WALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bristol, in vthe county of Bristol and State of Rhode Island," have invented a new and useful Improvement` in Razor-Strops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in razor-strops on which the razor is given its final or finished cutting edge after being ground or honed.

The objects of my invention areto improve the construction and lessen the cost of razorstrops. v f

My invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of a razor-strop made by securingpaper to a backing, and more particularly to a plurality of strips of paper on edge and means for securing the strips of paper together, sothat the edges of the paper will form the stropping-surface of the strop, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved razor-strop, showing the surface of the strop composed of paper secured to aiiexible backing, the backing forming the eye and hand ends of the strop. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional view through the strop, showingA the surface of the strop and illustrating the means for securing the same to the flexible backing; and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional View of a modified form of strop, showing a means for securing strips of paper together to form two stropping-surfaces which may be planed or trimmed down to presentnew surfaces when desired.

In the drawings, a represents the strop composed of a pluralityv of narrow strips of paper cfa', having the edges co2 a2 forming the flat surface fof the strop. In the liexible strop, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the inneredges of the strips of paper are given a coating of paste a4 and covered with a strip of fabric a5, and this in turn is cemented to the fiexible backing a, made of any suitable material and shaped to form the end a7, with the eye co8 for securing the strop when in use, and the handleshaped end a for the hand. In the modified form, as

shown in Fig. 3, the strips of paper are compressed and secured together by the metal rods passing through the paper and the clamping-bars 55.6 and riveting the ends o f the rods to the clamping-bars.

In constructing my improved razor-strop any kind of paperfsuch as newspaper) maybe used; but in the preferred form a pile of paper having the number of sheets required to form the width of the strop is placed in a paper-cutting machine and compressed with one edge of the pile extending outward and beyond the knife-line the distance required for the thickness of the strop. The edge of the pile is now coated with paste and a strip of fabric is applied. The paper outside the knife-line is now cut off, forming a plurality of narrow strips of paper adhering to the fabric by the paste. The fabric side is then cemented yto a backing of any desired material or shape required, the outer edges of the paper forming a compact flat surface on which the razor is stropped.

I do not wish to limit myself to the precise method of constructing the razor-strop described, as it is evident that various methods Vmay be used'to secure the strip or strips of pa per to a suitable backing to form lthe strop.

Having thusdescribed my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A razor-strcpy the surface of which is composed of a plurality of strips of paper on edge, and means for supporting the same, substantially as described.

2. A razor-strop composed of a pluralityof strips of paper on edge, a strengthening material such as fabric, and means for uniting or cementing the strips of paper to the strengthening material.

3. A razor-strop composed of a plurality of strips of paper on edge, a strengthening material such as fabric, means for cementing the strips of paper to the strengthening material, and means 'for cementing the strengthening material to a backing, Vfor the purpose as described.

4. In a razor-strop, the combination with a In testimony whereof I have signed my name plurahty of strips of paper on edge havmg to thls speeleatlon 1n the presence of two subthe edges 1,2 a2 formlng the Het surface a3 of the serlbmg Wltnesses.

strop and secured to the fabric a5 with peste, JOHN H. IVAIJL. 5 the flexible backing a cemented to the fabric IVitnesses: a5 and shaped to form the end a7 with the eye SAML. W. CHURCH, 2d,

as, and the handle-shaped end a, as described. JOSEPH A. MILLER, Jr. 

